Humped bladderwort
യൂട്രിക്കുലേറിയ ഗിബ്ബ
Utricularia gibba L.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Lentibulariaceae
Also called Floating Bladderwort, Humped Bladderwort
Formerly Megopiza fornicata, Megopiza integra, Megopiza longirostris, Plesisa bipartita, and 37 more
When it flowers
Flowers October to June in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- HydrosubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old World, AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 絲葉狸藻, 少花狸藻
- root
- UTRGIB
- Japanese
- オオバナイトタヌキモ, ミカワタヌキモ
- Portuguese
- Utriculária-Menor
- Chinese (China)
- 丝叶狸藻, 少花瘤枝卫矛
- Spanish
- Perrito de agua
- Czech
- bublinatka opomíjená
- Russian
- Пузырчатка горбатая
- Hungarian
- púpos rence
- French
- utriculaire à bosse, Utriculaire Bossue, Utriculaire Gibbeuse
- Polish
- pływacz garbaty
- Finnish
- hentovesiherne
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
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